Hey everybody is James Lindsay you're listening to new discourse's bullets

which is where I give a short bullet point-like summary of a single topic from

woke Marxism so that you can understand it so that we can beat it and And I want to talk about a thing called

affordance traps. So there's one of these little like weird quirky technical

discussions where I talk about one of their techniques and this technique is called

an affordance trap. So affordance is actually a

psychological phenomenon as many of these things happen to be. So what is an

affordance trap? Well we have to start with what is affordance.

Affordance is when you give people a limited amount, you afford people a

limited number of interpretations or explanations or

or pathways to action. For example, or bacon or sausage. I've given you an affordance of bacon and sausage. I've given you two

options. I have not given you more options. I didn't throw steak on the table.

And you notice I'm sticking with my meaty proteins. This is one of the ways

that a Fordans works. Another is that you only offer a very narrow range of interpretive frameworks for what you're seeing.

So either the person, this is an Ibrahim Kendi, so to stick straight into the woke, this is an Ibrahim Kandy trick, you know, that basically defines his career. It's as

bread and butter as a really dumb woke wizard, which is he gives you this affordance.

He says, okay, so imagine that we have, we'll do it with the example of a standardized

test, because Eram Kennedy frequently does do this with a standardized test like the SAT.

So we look and we see that on average for whatever reason, white people who take the test

end up with higher scores on average than black people who take the test on

average. Again I'm really stressing the on average because we're not actually

talking about individuals here we're talking about averages and attaching

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